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" It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It's funny. "

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" To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with. "

" Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting. "

" What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You'd need a lot more than an interview to go into it! "

" I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids. "

" Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving. "

" Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. "

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" You have to realize, making movies is the weirdest thing you could ever do. It's a contrivance, but you're attempting to reach people's hearts in the dark, and there are so many factors that are out of your control. "

" I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important. "

" Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. "

" I remember 'vulnerability' being an unattractive word for most of my life, and I resented it as a direction coming from a director just because it implied weakness so I get the job. But it is that humbling place that creates compassion. "

" So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done. "

" When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal. "

" Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to. "

" I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car. "

" I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel. "

" You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life. "

" For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career. "

" You can't get work without working. "

" I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh. "

" I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself. "

" I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have! "

" I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment. "

" In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record. "

" Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it. "

" I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter. "

" Independent films have a very different cachet than success films. "